Improvement in apparatus for drawing soda-water



W. 413.-,GLARK. Apparatus for Drawing Soda-Water, SLG.

Patented Dec. 23, 1879.

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WILLIAM P. CLARK, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING SODAWAT.ER,&C.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,869, dated December 23, 1879; application filed October 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. CLARK, of Medford, State ot' Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Soda-Water and other Beverages, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to the apparatus for drawing beverages that is usually arranged upon a counter or other suitable position, and to which apparatus the copper or transporting fountain is temporarily attached while such copper fountain is being emptied as the contents thereof are drawn ofI" through the apparatus into drinking-vessels and served to customers; and the invention consists in certain improvements in the parts and details of the apparatus, which will be hereinafter, in connection with the accompanying drawings,fully described and set forth.

Figure l is a perspective view of an assembled7 apparatus with my improvements affixed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved metallic bed-plate. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus as taken on line YZ, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an improved locking-nut with which I connect parts of the apparatus. Fig. 5 is a plan view of my improved valve-packing.

In these views, a represents said metallic bed-plate, which rests upon the slab or counter A, and which is formed with the raised parts b, with the passage c through the same, and having the circular wall or rim d, with its vertical slot e, formed thereon, the bore or passage in said walls opening in full size into horizontal passage cin part b. This bed-plate is secured to slab A by the tubular projections I f, formed upon its under side and threaded to receive the clamping-nuts g, as shown. To these projections f the couplings h are connected by the coupling-nuts t', with the usual packing j interposed, as shown. The pipes, which removably connect with the copper fountain, are soldered to couplings h, and thereby the liquid is conducted from such fountain into the apparatus, and is regulated in its flow by the valvular device next to be described.

In Fig. 5, 7c represents an elastic packing, which may bemolded in the ydesired form or en t from a sheet of suitable material. In said figure, 1 is the body of the packing; 2 2, the ears or stops, and 3 the hole in body 1, which latter is of a width to fit and slide in passage c in bed-plate a, and when so in place as to bring stops 2 against the face ot projections b hole 3 will be coincident with passage c in projections f.

`B represents the member or part which contains the valve-chamber and outlet-passage. In this part Z is the concentric rim at the base of the valve-chamber, and which bears upon packing 7c, as shown in Fig. 3. fm is the interior threaded part of such chamber, in which the corresponding threaded portion of valve (l engages. n is a diminished part, and mis the upper and exterior threaded part, on which is secured the nut y that compresses the paclc ing z, which serves as a stuting-box. Rim l is forced down upon packing lc by nut w, which is seated upon the projection or seat at theintersectiou of parts m n, and engages in the exterior thread on wall d, as shown in Fig. 3.

The valve C is formed with face 11, which seats upon packingk, the threaded section 12, which engages in section m of the valve-chamber, and thc stem 13, which lits closely in sec'- tion n, nut 1 and packing z, and is surmounted by the star-wheel c, by which it is actuated.

The concentric rim l being forced down upon packing 7c by the action ot' nut w, as described, and valve C being turned down upon the packing, the flow ot' the liquid through passage c linto the valve-chamber would bc arrested; but

when the valve is raised the liquid will ilovv from the chamber into passage d' in the lateral arm oand descending branch 19, and thence through coupling s, to which the delivery-pipe is tobe soldered.

The couplings is secured to branch p by nut r in the usual manner. The lateral arm o is inserted in slote in wall d, and branch p passes `down through slab A, as shown.

4The ornamental base D is removable at pleasure without disturbance of' any of the other parts except the valve-wheels o, and it may be raised, without removing said wheels,

to obtain access to packing la when it becomes necessary to renew the same. It incloses all the metal work above slab A except the valvestems and wheels, nuts y, and part` of nuts w,

theholes in the top of the base being of suficient 'size to receive loosely the nuts w, the separate rings I), which lit closely to such nuts, serving to conceal the open joint between the nuts and the base.

The nuts i and r, which respectively secure couplings zy and s in place, are formed with a he-Xagon or angular sectio1 1,f, and a base, c', in which latter are the lever-holes u, as shown. By forming the base @with a plurality of pr9jections, f, it is by them securely clamped to slab A, and cannot be displaced either laterally or endwise; and by forming upon the bed a a plurality of raised parts, b, with their locking-rims d, a large savin gin cost is effected, as no additional expense is incurred in securing them to slab A. and their relative positions are determined by the casting itself, the position of rims d coinciding with the holes in the top of base D; and by forming the packing-chambers@l open and accessible from the outside, and the base D being removable, it can be raised andY the packing 7c be insert-ed, removed, or replaced with new, without other displacement of parts, except to raise valve U oft' the packing and slack nut fw,- and packing` 7c being formed with body l correspond ing in width to passage c, and with stops 2 2, it may be removed, returned, or replaced with new, without danger of being out of position, for when stops 2 arrest the insertion of the packing hole 3 is coincident with inductionpassage c.

The locking-rims d being formed on parts b, and the nuts w engaging such rims and the shoulder on part B, serve to insure a close contact between rim land packing' k, which latter is by such compression raised slightly inside the rim, thereby insuring a close-fitting seat to the face of valve C.

The slot e in rim d serves to receive the lateral arm o of part B, and prevents its rotation when nuts g or fw or valve C are actuated.

By carrying thearm p down through slab A, the fluid, after it passes the valve above the slab, may be conducted by the concealed pipe connected with coupling s to any desired point without in any manner disiiguring the apparatus or exhibiting such conducting-pipe.

By forming the locking-nuts fi and r, in part with an angular cross-section and a base having the lever-holes a, they can, in certain positions, be more easily manipulated than it formed with only one of such means of being rotated.

Instead of stops 2 2 being formed as part of packing lc, `such stops may be formed in ornament-al metal work, and be screwed or scribed, the metal base a, having a plurality of tubular induction-conduits, f,.formed thereon, coincident with passages c, and arranged to clamp such base to slab A, and to serve as conduits to the valve chambers above, substantially as specified.

y 3. A valve-packing seat form ed with an open passage, c, whereby the packing k is accessible, and may be removed or replaced from the eX- terior, substantially as specitied.

4. The valve-packing lc, having the stops 2 2,

arranged to arrest the packing when introduced into its seat, so that passage 3 shall be coincident with the induction-passage c', substantially as specified. v i

In an apparatus for the purposes described, the induction-conduit f and the discharge-conduit o p, arranged substantially as specified, whereby the liquid is conducted up through slab A to the valve-chamber, and is thence discharged down through such slab, substantially as specified..

6. In an apparatus for the purposes described, the combination of base a, with its i11- duction-passage c', valve-packing seats c, and locking-rims d, part B, with its vertical wall, valve-chamber, and dischargeconduit, the locking-nut u, valve C, and packing k, all substantially as specified. v

7. In an apparatus for t-he purposes de-I scribed, the vertical slots e, formed in the locking-rims d, and to receive the lateral arm 0, of

part B, and so as to hold suoli part from rot-ation, substantially as specified.

8. In an apparatus for the purposes described, the ornamental removable base D, arranged above slab A and formed to. inclose base-plate a and its connections, and with passages in its top for the projection of the stem of valve C therefrom, substantially as specified. l

9. In combination with base D and the nuts w projecting therefrom, the separate removable collars b, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM P. CLARK.

Vitnesses:

T. lli-PORTER, EUGENE HUMPHREY. 

